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After a long time of oscillating between low carb dieting and some form of veganism, I have decided that the vegan diet makes more sense than gaining and losing weight on Atkins, Paleo, or Ketogenic.

Don’t get me wrong, there are good animal foods to eat, but there is an inverse relationship between animal foods in the diet and overall health. The more plant based you are, the better off you are.

The problem with my journey to veganism is that I wasn’t doing it right. Most vegans don’t eat a lot of vegetables. They eat mostly grain. Fructarians eat mostly fruit and seed like they did in the Garden of Eden.

Beans and vegetables don’t taste that good and to make them more palatable, you have to add salt, fat, and condiments. Fruit is fine the way it is, and whole grains like brown rice and quinoa give you strength.

I am still not completely vegan, I eat eggs everyday and sometimes even a bit of chicken, but most of my diet is essentially fruit and brown rice. Remember, it is more healthy to be underfed than overfed. When you are eating very few calories, your body can make up for the deficiencies with air and water. When you eat too much, you become sluggish and the extra food in the intestines putrifies and makes your body toxic.

There are a lot of advantages to being plant-based. Number one, the food is cheaper, because high protein foods are expensive. Secondly, its more hygenic and convenient because meat has to be cooked before it goes bad. This is a big hassle.

It’s best to be an opportunist with food. This is the way man was in previous civilizations. Most of their diet was plant food and on rare times and holidays they slaughtered animals and ate meat. Still, even with the convenience of animal food everywhere, one’s diet should be mostly whole grains and produce. Human biology hasn’t changed that much since ancient times, only industrial methods of agriculture and the corrupt media have.

So as you make your way through this world, just remember, both science and religion agree that the original man was an eater of fruit and seed and not just protein and starch.

Better than weight training and a low carb diet, which just inflates your muscles and doesn’t build functional strength and doesn’t last as soon as you go off this regimen, is something much better.

And that would be intermittent fasting. In the end, it’s not so much about what you eat or whether it is organic, free range, or all that nonsense. It’s about how much you eat and how often.

Most people in America don’t go more than 4 hours without eating, and some ‘graze’ all day or eat a meal every two hours. This is not good for your digestive organs, hormonal balance, insulin levels, teeth, and a whole slew of other things.

There are many ways to break up the day into periods of eating and not eating. But the theory is, when the body has a chance to rest from food, insulin levels drop and the organs of digestion get to rest. The best is to skip breakfast, eat your first meal at 10am, then wait four hours, eat again, wait another four hours, and eat your last meal of the day. You can snack a little before 8pm, and that’s it. Nothing fancy.

Fasting before and after sleep is a powerful tonic. The body gets to rest from digesting food all the time and nourish the brain and organs instead. It might be necessary to drink black coffee when you wake up to help you get going, but I suggest skipping breakfast and not snacking after dinner. In addition, don’t graze or snack in between meals. This is the easiest way to stay fit.

If you do intermittent fasting, the quality of the food you eat is less important. You can eat meat, sugar, bread, milk, anything in moderation as long as you are not eating too much or too often. That’s why I call it the easy way to get fit, it’s a no brainer.

Of course, it takes discipline and restraint from snacking all day. I suggest eating protein with every meal and replacing some of the carbs with fat. Good fats are good foods.

In general, one should eat to live not live to eat. Don’t see food as a reward for good behavior. You’re not a kid anymore. See food as fuel for your body and lifestyle. Eat what you need to eat, not what is most tasty and exciting.

Intermittent fasting plus ketogenic diet is the real caveman diet. Cavemen didn’t graze on sugar and starch all day because they couldn’t afford to. They went through periods of feast and famine, and were lucky to eat one piece of fruit per summer. Wheat and all starchy grains were an invention of the agriculturist later on in human development, which doesn’t make them inherently bad, just unnatural. Brown rice is the most harmless and energetic grain, the starchy fruit of a grass species.

The less often you eat, the more hunger you have for the food and the better it tastes. This is the original way to live, enjoying the bare minimum with zeal, not sitting around the TV munching on cheetos and soda.

Not all carbs are bad. That should be clear. In fact, one could live off of starch if one had too, it’s been done before. But in the short term, sugar restriction is the best way to lose weight.

Some of my favorite foods are carbs, and I eat them every day. Things like brown rice, apples, oats, lemons, bananas, etc… are all good carbs. The real trick is to eat wholesome, unprocessed foods and not man made garbage. Just eat natural food and your health will return.

Since the low carb diet is popular now, that is how athletes and bodybuilders get ripped in the short run, people are avoiding carbs entirely. But that is not smart. Carbs like whole grain and fruit are actually full of fiber and antioxidants, and since grain is cheap, it is easy to sustain yourself on very little money.

It is a precarious balance, between ingesting sugar/starch and burning it off through cardiovascular exercise. It is important to get in enough water too so you are not low energy and sluggish.

Ultimately, it’s about calories in and calories out, and fat has the most calories per gram. The low carb fad will die out, and people will realize that any natural food is good food, and all these restrictions are just academic in the end.

Mostly everyone should be drinking more water. Many people in America are walking around dehydrated. One way of getting more water in is to drink more fluid foods, like lemonade, soups, and smoothies.

These fluid foods are good for your health. In China, even to this day, people drink hot broths in between meals and even in between servings. It is important to consume a lot of fluids, not just to avoid dehydration, but to fill up on less calories during the day. Less is more.

One important ingredient in all three dishes, that is, lemonade, soups, and smoothies is celtic sea salt. Now you might think, who puts salt in lemonade or smoothies? Well, some salts are better than others, and complete salt, as in from dehydrated ocean water, contains a lot of electrolytes within. Adding a tiny amount of celtic sea salt to anything fluid makes it more re-hydrating, and is a good alternative to buying and consuming gatorade or the like.

Fluid foods are hydrating, low in calories, help you feel fuller longer, and they also cure bowel problems, so that both constipation and diarrhea are alleviated. Remember, your fluid foods should be made using the same principles as solid food. And that would include protein, vegetables, fat, and a bit of low sugar fruit, while avoiding dairy, sugar, and gluten. This diet makes sense.

In the future, I will be recording videos of me in the kitchen, and uploading them to youtube and this blog. I hope people out there see my cooking techniques and perhaps are inspired to make changes in their lives too.

No matter what dietary approach you take, and there are a lot of them, fruit is good for you and should not be omitted from the human diet. We’re supposed to eat fruit. Fruit is good.

You see, fruit contains seeds in it, that’s kind of the definition of the term. A lot of vegetables we eat every day are actually fruits, such as tomato, cucumber, eggplant, and hot pepper. Not just that, but actually high sugar, low sugar, and starchy fruits such as orange, blackberries, and banana are good for men and dogs alike to eat. The tree or plant that produces the fruit wants you to eat the fruit, so in nature, the bird or reptile or mammal or whatever later drops the seed of the plant through the feces. I know, not pleasant to talk about on a nutrition blog but the facts are the facts.

All these low carb diets and their variants are telling people to restrict fruit intake and it’s just not right and not a long-term solution. Whole fruit has fiber in it as well as sugar, so the glycemic load is mitigated. Not only that, but fruit is a natural, unprocessed food that is sweet so it’s easy even for people who don’t usually eat healthy to incorporate into their diets.

There are other foods that are essential in the diet, like whole grains and an adequate amount of protein, but the point of this post is that fruit is human food and it’s not wise to avoid any of them on purpose.